We are now in a world where changes and turbulence are intertwined. As the world’s largest developing country, how will China navigate the increasingly volatile international landscape? At the press conference held on the margins of China’s Two Sessions on March 7, 2025, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi elaborated on China’s foreign policy and external relations.
China’s diplomacy will bring much-needed stability to a changing and turbulent world
In today’s world, certainty is becoming a scarce resource. China’s diplomacy will stand firm on the right side of history and on the side of human progress. We will provide certainty to this uncertain world.
China will be a just and righteous force for world peace and stability. We will continue to expand our global partnerships featuring equality, openness and co-operation, and actively use the Chinese approach in resolving hot-spot issues.
China will be a progressive force for international fairness and justice. We will uphold true multilateralism, and bear in mind the future of humanity and the well-being of the people. We will observe the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and build more consensus for an equal and orderly multipolar world.
China will be a constructive force for common development of the world. We will continue to expand high-standard opening up, and share the vast opportunities of Chinese modernisation with all countries. We will safeguard the multilateral free trade system, foster an open, inclusive and non-discriminatory environment for international co-operation, and advance a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation.
In the West, they say, “There are no eternal friends, only permanent interests.” But we in China believe that friends should be permanent and we should pursue common interests. President Xi Jinping has proposed building a community with a shared future for mankind, and called on all countries to transcend disagreements and differences, jointly protect our only planet, and develop together the global village as our common home.
We are pleased to see that more and more countries have joined the cause of building a community with a shared future; more than a hundred countries support China’s Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, and Global Civilisation Initiative; and more than three quarters of countries across the world have joined the family of Belt and Road co-operation. History will prove that a real winner is the one that keeps in mind the interests of all, and that a community with a shared future for mankind will ensure that the world belongs to every country, and that everyone will have a bright future.
China stands firmly in safeguarding the interests of the Global South
The hallmark of our era is the prominent, growing strength of the Global South. Accounting for over 40% of global GDP and contributing as high as 80% of global growth, the Global South is a key force for maintaining world peace, driving world development, and improving global governance, and it holds the key to bringing stability to the world and making it a better place.
The Global South should strengthen themselves. Since the beginning of the year, Indonesia has become a full member of Brics, and nine partner countries have joined the Brics family. Brics is emerging as a backbone of co-operation and an engine of growth in the Global South.
The Global South should stand together in unity. This year, China will host the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit. The SCO has grown through the past 24 years from a six-member organisation to a big family consisting of 26 countries. It has become a regional co-operation organisation with the largest geographical area and population. The Global South should speak in one voice to the world, safeguard our common interests, and steadily increase our representation and voice in global governance.
The Global South should strive for development. Last November, President Xi Jinping announced eight actions China would take in support of global development, generating new energy for faster Global South development. We should keep development as a central international agenda item, build up the momentum, enhance our capacity, and advance hand in hand toward modernisation.
China is naturally a member of the Global South, because we have fought colonialism and hegemonies together in history and we are committed to the common goal of development and revitalisation. No matter how the world changes, our heart will always be with the Global South, and our root will grow deeper in the Global South. China will work with all Global South countries to add a new chapter to the annals of the history of the world.
China is a sincere friend of our Arab brothers and will resolutely support for peace and stability in the Middle East
The Palestinian question has always been at the heart of the Middle East issue. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict takes place again and again simply because the two-State solution is only half achieved: The State of Israel has long been a reality, but the State of Palestine is still far beyond reach. Going forward, the international community should focus more on the two-State solution and give more support to independent statehood for Palestine. Only then could Palestine and Israel truly coexist in peace, and the Arab and Jewish peoples live side by side in enduring amity.
Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people. It is an inseparable part of the Palestinian territory. Changing its status by forceful means will not bring about peace, but only new chaos. We support the plan for restoring peace in Gaza initiated by Egypt and other Arab countries. The will of the people must not be defied, and the principle of justice must not be abandoned.
If some major country truly cares about the people in Gaza, it should promote comprehensive and lasting ceasefire, ramp up humanitarian assistance, observe the principle of Palestinians governing Palestine, and contribute to the reconstruction in Gaza.
China is a strategic partner of Middle East countries. We will continue to strive resolutely for justice, peace and development for the Middle East people, and support countries in the region in taking their future in their own hands, independently exploring their development paths, and realising the dream of peace and revitalisation at an early date.
China will realise reunification and this is unstoppable
Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. This is the history and the reality. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the recovery of Taiwan. Both the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, issued by major victorious nations of WWII, stated in explicit terms that Taiwan is a territory that shall be restored to China. All these have confirmed China’s sovereignty over Taiwan, and formed an important part of the post-WWII international order.
Resolution 2758 adopted in 1971 by the UN General Assembly with an overwhelming majority decides to restore all the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China at the UN and expel forthwith the representatives of the Taiwan authorities from the UN and all the organisations related to it.
The only reference to the Taiwan region in the UN is “Taiwan, Province of China.” Taiwan is never a country, not in the past, and never in the future. Realising China’s complete reunification is a shared aspiration of the Chinese nation. It is an inevitable trend, and it is what the greater national interests entail.
China-Qatar relationship is now at its best in the history and has set a role model for the state-to-state relationship in the world
In 2014, President Xi Jinping and His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani announced that China and Qatar would establish a strategic partnership. Over the past decade, under the strategic guidance of our two heads of state, China-Qatar strategic partnership has seen a golden decade of comprehensive and rapid development.
The mutual trust between China and Qatar continues to deepen as we support each other in safeguarding our core and major interests. Our co-operation in various fields becomes increasingly close as China has consistently been Qatar’s largest trading partner and largest export destination over the past years. Our people-to-people exchanges grow vibrantly with the number of Chinese tourists visiting Qatar reaching 97,000 in 2024, marking a 77% increase year-on-year. China and Qatar have become close partners in striving for our respective national development and rejuvenation.
China stands ready to work with Qatar to synergise our development strategies, promote win-win co-operation to a higher level, jointly uphold international fairness and justice, safeguard regional peace and development, and create greater well-being for our peoples.